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"a voice telling stories"

Textile artist Anne Jackson makes knotted tapestries about women executed for witchcraft in England. She aims "to make something visually arresting, or even beautiful, which also brings to consciousness something deeper and darker". She gave a talk about her work, The Witchcraft Series: History, Magic & Metaphor, in 2020 (YouTube, 1 hr 25min). She discusses the history of witchcraft executions, the figure of the witch in western culture and in politics, prejudice about textile art, witches in the minds of gentlemen scholars, 1960s art education, her village's white witch who is "great friends with the vicar", and how her process of knotting threads together echoes the narratives we put together about the past.

There is a text interview with Jackson from 2012 at Blethering Crafts. You can see her work on her website, and she has two short videos showing the process of making her tapestries. You can read a machine-generated transcript of the witchcraft video at YT transcript io.

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Amazon Must Negotiate With First Warehouse Workers Union, US Labor Board Rules

Amazon "must negotiate with a labor union representing some 5,000 workers at a company warehouse on Staten Island," reports Reuters, citing a ruling Wednesday from America's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The union formed in 2022, according to the article, and "has been seeking to negotiate with Amazon over pay, working conditions and other matters."

The NLRB said in its ruling that Amazon "has engaged in unfair labor practices" by refusing to bargain with the labor group or to recognize its legitimacy... Amazon said on Thursday it disagreed with the NLRB's ruling. "Representatives of the NLRB improperly influenced this election," the company said in a statement, suggesting it planned to appeal. "We're confident an unbiased court will overturn the original certification, and we look forward to the opportunity for our team to fairly voice their opinions." An appeal would likely preclude Amazon from having to comply with the NLRB's order while it makes its way through the courts...

Related to the Staten Island case, Amazon has argued that the NLRB itself is unconstitutional and sued to block the agency from ruling on it. The matter is still pending.

After forming independently, that union "has since aligned with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters," the article points out. The Teamsters represent 1.3 million American workers, according to a statement they issued this week, which also includes this quote from the president of Amazon Labor Union-e Local 1. "We are making history at Amazon, and we are doing it through undiluted worker power..."
Their statement adds that the ruling "came only one day after the union announced another historic victory that upheld Amazon Teamsters' right to strike."

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The Document Foundation Removes Dozens of Collabora Developers

Long-time GNOME/OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice contributor
Michael Meeks is now general manager of Collabora Productivity. And earlier this month he complained when LibreOffice decided to bring back its LibreOffice Online project, as reported by Neowin, which had been inactive since 2022. After the original project went dormant — to which Collabora was a major contributor — they forked the code and created their own product, Collabora Online.

But this week Meeks blogged about even more changes, writing that the Document Foundation (the nonprofit behind LibreOffice) "has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners.
That includes over thirty people who have contributed faithfully to LibreOffice for many years." Meeks argues the ejections were "based on unproven legal concerns and guilt by association."

This includes seven of the top ten core committers of all time (excluding release engineers) currently working for Collabora Productivity. The move is the culmination of TDF losing a large number of founders from membership over the last few years with: Thorsten Behrens, Jan 'Kendy' Holesovsky, Rene Engelhard, Caolan McNamara, Michael Meeks, Cor Nouws and Italo Vignoli no longer members. Of the remaining active founders, three of the last four are paid TDF staff (of whom none are programming on the core code).

The blog It's FOSS calls it "LibreOffice Drama." They've confirmed the removals happened, also noting recently adopted Community Bylaws requiring members to step down if they're affiliated with a company in an active legal dispute with the Foundation. But The Documentation Foundation "also makes clear that a membership revocation is not a ban from contributing, with the project remaining open to anyone, and expects Collabora to keep contributing 'when the time comes.'"

Collabora's Meeks adds in his blog post that there's "bold and ongoing plans to create an entirely new, cut-down, differentiated Collabora Office for users that is smoother, more user friendly, and less feature dense than our Classic product (which will continue to be supported for years for our partners).

This gives a chance to innovate faster in a separate place on a smaller, more focused code-base with fewer build configurations, much less legacy, no Java, no database, web-based toolkit and more. We are excited to get executing on that.

To make this process easier, and to put to bed complaints about having our distro branches in TDF gerrit [for code review], and to move to self-hosted FOSS tooling we are launching our own gerrit to host our existing branch of core...
We will continue to make contributions to LibreOffice where that makes sense (if we are welcome to), but it clearly no longer makes much sense to continue investing heavily in building what remains of TDF's community and product for them — while being excluded from its governance. In this regard, we seem to be back where we were fifteen years ago.

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Een bijzonder tafereel zaterdagavond aan de Doctor Wiardi Beckmansingel in Vlaardingen: een geparkeerde auto óp een stenen kei. Toen handhavers van de gemeente Vlaardingen de auto aantroffen, was er geen bestuurder meer te bekennen.

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Iran laat Iraakse schepen door Straat van Hormuz

TEHERAN/BAGDAD (ANP/AFP) - Het Iraanse opperbevel heeft gezegd dat schepen uit of naar Irak zonder problemen door de Straat van Hormuz kunnen varen. "We kondigen aan dat ons broederlijk buurland Irak vrijgesteld is van beperkingen die voor de tocht door de Straat van Hormuz zijn ingesteld", zo luidde de verklaring.

De ingestelde beperkingen voor de scheepvaart door de zeestraat zijn alleen van kracht voor vijandelijke landen, zo werd beklemtoond.

Olierijk Irak probeert zich zo neutraal mogelijk op te stellen en een goede relatie met de VS en zijn Arabische buren te handhaven. Maar Irak is voor de scheepvaart aangewezen op de zeestraat. Bovendien is een grote meerderheid van de bevolking sjiitisch en religieus verwant met het aangrenzende overwegend sjiitische Iran. Zaterdag hebben in Bagdad vele tienduizenden sjiitische demonstranten betoogd tegen de Israëlisch-Amerikaanse oorlog tegen Iran.

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De Straat van Hormuz is vrijwel geblokkeerd door Iran sinds het begin van de Amerikaanse en Israëlische aanvallen eind vorige maand. Iran zegt dat schepen die geen banden hebben met de vijand er na overleg doorheen kunnen. Maar dit lijkt in de praktijk moeilijk. Daarnaast zou Iran tolgeld eisen in ruil voor bescherming.

Bovendien is de scheepvaart wat betreft de vlag van het schip, de eigenaar, de reder of de bestemming van het vaartuig niet echt 'natiegebonden'. Voor zover bekend hebben slechts ruim 220 vrachtschepen de zeestraat zichtbaar doorkruist sinds 1 maart. In vredestijd waren het er rond de 120 per dag.

Zaterdag meldden de Indiase autoriteiten bijvoorbeeld dat een lpg-tanker die onder Indiase vlag vaart door de zeestraat probleemloos richting de Indische Oceaan is gevaren. Maar er zijn nog steeds zeventien schepen onder Indiase vlag met 460 Indiase bemanningsleden in de Perzische Golf.


Duizenden bij steundemonstratie voor burgemeester Saint-Denis

SAINT-DENIS (ANP/AFP) - In de Parijse voorstad Saint-Denis zijn duizenden mensen de straat opgegaan om hun steun te betuigen aan de nieuwe burgemeester Bally Bagayoko. Die kreeg na zijn verkiezingswinst vorige maand te maken met racistische berichten en riep daarom op tot een protest tegen racisme.

De 52-jarige Bagayoko is lid van het uiterst linkse La France Insoumise (LFI). Hij is een zwarte Fransman van Malinese afkomst en kreeg direct na de verkiezingen racistische berichten op sociale media. Maar ook op de nationale televisie werd hij in een conservatieve talkshow openlijk vergeleken met primitieve stamhoofden en apen.

Dat leidde tot woede in Saint-Denis, met zo'n 150.000 inwoners de grootste voorstad van Parijs. Demonstranten verzamelden zich zaterdag bij het stadshuis. Ook vakbonden, muziekbands en landelijke politici sloten zich aan bij het protest.

Parijse aanklagers hebben een onderzoek geopend naar mogelijke racistische beledigingen in de talkshow van CNews.


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Closing Time | We Didn’t Start the Fire

Zojuist moest ik weer even denken aan dit liedje van Billy Joel (hierboven in een geactualiseerde versie door Fallout Boy), toen ik dit clipje van een metal-reactie op de Amerikaanse staatssecretaris van Defensie Oorlog, Pete Hegseth voorbij zag komen.

“We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it,” horen we Hegseth zeggen.

Een gotspe natuurlijk, maar wel illustratief voor een wereld waarin leugens en rookgordijnen dekking geven aan catastrofale besluiten die heel wel mogelijk de levens van honderden miljoenen mensen in armoe en ongeluk kunnen storten.

Ik moet eerlijk bekennen dat ik het refrein altijd heb opgevat als een sarcastisch commentaar op de Amerikaanse kijk op haar eigen optreden in buiten- en binnenland, maar Genius en Songmeaning suggereren dat Joel het werkelijk meent in 1989:

De wereld was altijd al gevuld met uitzinnige gebeurtenissen en schijnbaar balancerend op het randje van de afgrond, en de babyboom-generatie van Joel heeft juist getracht het ten goede bij te sturen.